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Social Networking for the Legal Profession - Shaping New Ways of Working
Consider for a moment where you turn when you're looking for a document, a reference or information about who's working on what and with which clients. Commonly people will ask their colleagues or send out an email to their team... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession - when 'social' means 'business'
For lawyers, social networking has always been an important feature of the way they do business, and there are many characteristics of lawyerly behaviour that map very closely to the features of online social networking, such as: Relationship based-business development;Individual... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession - Challenging Conditions
With the release of our publication Social Networking for the Legal Profession, I will be introducing in a series of blogs some of the topics and themes outlined in more detail in the report. I will start the series with... read full post
Social Networking for the Legal Profession
We are proud to announce a major new report, published in association with Ark Group, entitled Social Networking for the Legal Profession, which looks in depth at current practice in social networking and social technologies within the legal sector read full post
Futures planning with horizon scanning and social computing - Part 2
In the same way that the Web has changed the communication habits of millions of people, social computing is evolving to help us work with and in complex adaptive systems. The insights from Snowden and Jackson about 'foresight' and complexity,... read full post
Social networks as information filters
Yesterday, I went along to the InformatieProfessional Conference here in Amsterdam. As with all things associated with the web these days, the theme of the conference was Integrity 2.0. Key issues revolved around data privacy, information reliability and management of... read full post
Futures planning with horizon scanning and social computing - Part I
In today's complex and turbulent environment, organisations need 'foresight' to be able to respond promptly to various change drivers including technology, sustainability, globalisation and the economy. Essentially 'foresight' is a participative approach to creating shared long-term visions to inform short... read full post
Going with the flow: whither enterprise RSS?
Reports of the death of RSS at the hands of Twitter are exaggerated, though they contain a grain of truth. Here's why I think we are yet to see its real value in the enterprise. read full post
Second-wave adopters are coming. Are you prepared? Part 2 / 3
This is the 2nd part of a blog post looking at user adoption.1) Overview of barriers to introducing Enterprise 2.0 and user adoption2) Scrutinizing barriers to user adoption3) Thoughts on how to attract second-wave adopters In the first post I... read full post
Second-wave adopters are coming. Are you prepared? Part 1 / 3
I decided to break this blog post down into three parts, as it had become way too long during all those endless nights of writing. The general theme is that in the near future we will see more companies starting... read full post
Amongst other things, we're connectors
Over the past few weeks two interesting things have surfaced time and time and time again in the client workshops, consulting engagements and pitches I've been involved in here at Headshift, namely that:the work we do behind firewall on the... read full post
Five Things Every Legal Practice Should Know About Web 2.0
V. Mary Abraham and I ran a session at Legaltech New York earlier this month about the impact of Web2.0 technology and ideas on Law firm IT. Here is an overview and some slides from that session. read full post
The recession presents a great opportunity to transform Legal IT
The recession presents an opportunity for change, but will IT departments grasp it or continue with business as usual? read full post
Do you value your social capital?
To what extent does your company facilitate social networking between employees split by geographical or organisational distance, or with (existing or potential) clients and business partners? What's the value of this social capital to the company (i.e. the connections within... read full post
Business will be different in 5 years - fundamentally different
Think for a minute about how you used to book your holidays, buy your music, find an address or select insurance - 10 or even 5 years ago? Do you even bother to search for things these days or do... read full post
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